royal mail pay bulletin nos 2

[darth]

Royal Mail Letter Pay 2007

A further meeting took place with Royal Mail yesterday afternoon. The meeting concluded with Royal Mail still refusing to offer our members any basic pay increase. Instead, they revised their position by increasing the range of lump sums on offer from between £250/£400 to £250/£550. These lump sums remain conditional on the Union signing up to specific savings initiatives, most of which amount to significant pay cuts and involve major change.
Royal Mail’s position on local productivity remains unchanged.
We have totally rejected Royal Mail’s offer and informed them that their overall position is completely unacceptable to the Union.
We have told Royal Mail that we are prepared to deal with Major Change, Efficiency and the Challenges facing the company – but this is conditional on them significantly improving our members’ terms and conditions and honouring the commitments they made to raise the value and status of postal workers’ jobs.
A key factor in our negotiations has been our insistence that Royal Mail back off from introducing panic driven cost cutting measures at local level. Therefore, we have offered Royal Mail the opportunity for a moratorium on managerial executive action and industrial action over efficiency issues. This was rejected out of hand by Royal Mail.
The Union remains committed to achieving a negotiated settlement but we cannot allow Royal Mail to drive down our members’ terms and conditions.
We have advised Royal Mail that we are prepared to continue negotiations. However, the business has left us with no alternative other than to prepare the ground for an industrial action ballot. Therefore, CWU Headquarters has begun the process of ensuring that membership lists are up to date and meet the necessary legal requirements.
Following a joint meeting yesterday with the Postal Executive and Divisional Reps, we have asked the Divisional Representatives to take a number of initiatives designed to gain support for the Union’s course of action.
We will be writing direct to members next week to explain the overall position. In the meantime, it is essential that Branches continue to communicate face to face with our members at every opportunity.
Yours sincerely

Dave Ward
Deputy General Secretary (P)

taken from cwu website

[POSTMAN]

Cheers Darth.
So that's it then IA here we come,RM can't say they're suprised

[ajohnstone]

Got our WTL today and lo and behold a wonderful RM wish list .

Completion of the plans to end nearly all night shifts at delivery office by July 2007

Starting times at DOs to be 6-30am instead of presently 6-00am

At Mail-Centres , processing only 1st Class and Priorities only at the weekends and if Postcomm agrees ending Sunday and Public Holiday collections , hiopefully implemented by July 2007 - no doubt this will result in numerous duty cuts and loss of lots of overtime earnings

Summer scheduling ...lapse more duties , reduce cover and overtime

House-hold deliveries - increase the workload of items that can be delivered .

Oh , and of course another onslaught against sick absences is hinted at , as if harassing staff with unwanted phonecalls at home is not enough .

A few years ago it was proposed that Glasgow Mail-centre would close at the weekend and Edinburgh would handle their week-end mail . Nothing came of it , but not so sure if the plan might be resurrected here and perhaps at other Mailcentres who are in in close vicinity .

[darth]

its going to be a long hot summer,croziers on radio 5 this evening so the propaganda starts.

[cjp]

Whoopee here we go again, hope everyone works hard to get the right result this time Guess this is going to be a lonnnnnnnng year, perhaps I'll be as mad as L Tommo by the end of it

[L Tommo]

CJP......

OUT

ITS NOT ME THATS MAD ITS MY 5 OTHER SELVES!!! AND VERY